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The individual fines are still small in amount, and I would
venture to suggest to the Vestry the advisability of combining
with other Metropolitan Vestries to influence the Home Office or
the Local Government Board to take the matter up. It would in
my opinion be extremely inadvisable to accede to the recent request
of the London County Council for information. It looks too much
like the thin edge of the wedge to deprive the Vestries of the
legitimate control of their own officers. The work would be much
better in the hands cf the Local Government Board, who have the
advantage over the London County Council of having returns from
the whole of the Kingdom in addition to those from the Metropolis.
I would also point out that at present the Vestries are deprived
from officially examining the gas supplied to themselves and their
ratepayers, this duty being nominally in the hands of the London
County Council, who have, however, very little real control; their
main duty being to pay the Gas Examiners, and even this they
do badly.
FRANK L. TEED, D.Sc. Lond., F.C.S., F.I.C.,
Public Analyst.